Whose Streets? is a documentary about on-the-ground activism in the Ferguson uprising by filmmakers Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis. …
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Documentary
Explore the innovative and artistic strategies documentarians use to narrativize nonfiction stories on screen.
Sundance review: An Inconvenient Sequel never proves necessary
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power is an unsatisfying followup to An Inconvenient Truth, more interested in Al Gore himself than the multi-faceted …
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Sundance’s New Climate Program showcases environmental docs
Sundance highlighted pressing environmental problems with its commendable but flawed New Climate program. …
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Protecting the land: Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman and RISE
Two documentaries screening in Sundance's New Climate program — Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman and RISE — shed light on projects to protect land in the …
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Two opposing sensibilities: Gianfranco Rosi and Frederick Wiseman
Every documentarian has a unique approach to filmmaking, but you might not expect that Frederick Wiseman and Gianfranco Rosi often have polar opposite …
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Ava DuVernay’s 13th is an innovative spin on the talking head doc
Employing key but subtle twists on the convention talking head documentary, Ava DuVernay's 13th explains how slavery in the U.S. was never really …
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